Tag: hemoglobin

This Week in Parasitism

TWiP 261: A case for Dr. Hickam

July 4, 2025
Tagged as: bloody diarrhea, creatinine, hemoglobin, Hickam, Ockam, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, sticky stool

TWiP solves the case of the pregnant woman from Tanzania with dehydration and 3 weeks of bloody stool, a situation that would confuse Ockam but not Dr. Hickam. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Daniel Griffin, and Christina Naula…

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TWiP 180: A spleen palaver

February 8, 2020
Tagged as: artemisinin, clathrin, endocytosis, hemoglobin, kelch13, malaria, parasite, parasite food vacuole, parasitism, parasitology, Plasmodium, spleen, splenomegaly, Uganda

The TWiP professors solve the case of the Ugandan Child with Splenomegaly, and reveal that mutations in the P. falciparum genome that confer artemisinin resistance interfere with endocytic uptake of hemoglobin.

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TWiP 179: Verminous visitors

January 11, 2020
Tagged as: Ascaris, hemoglobin, macaque, malaria, malarial anemia, nonhuman primate, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, pathogenesis, roundworm

The TWiP DVD solve the case of the Child Who Passed Worms, and discuss a non-human primate model for severe malarial anemia.

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TWiP 261: A case for Dr. Hickam

TWiP 180: A spleen palaver

TWiP 179: Verminous visitors

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